I do not think Excel creates a new Personal.xls every time? Maybe you should
just hide your personal.xls file. A very handy file to store application
wide macros, which you want to be able to use in all worksheets, rather than
have to copy to all worksheets? I would never delete mine!

"Derek" wrote:

Hi,

Whenever I open an .xls document, Excel will create a file personal.xls. How
can I stop Excel from doing this?

Many thanks!
Derek